Jan 25, 2011 11:58 GMT  ·  By

Android fans who use their devices for listening to music will be happy to find that Songbird’s developer has decided to release its highly-acclaimed music management application on the Android platform.

Coming from Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac OS, the developer decided to go with Android, as the first mobile platform for Songbird.

Even though the currently available download is just a preview of the application, beta testers will be able to enjoy some of the features offered by the desktop version of the software.

Songbird will probably have a hard time to make itself popular on the Android platform, as the market is already crowded with more than decent music apps such as MIUI and Winamp.

For those out of the loop, Songbird allows users to keep their library in sync, build playlists, browse, search, as well as sort their music files. The application features add-ons which make downloading music files from specialized websites much faster and more reliable.

Songbird comes with music and video player components and supports MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, WAV audio formats, as well as H.264, Windows Media Video, MPEG4 video formats.

Android users will be able to download Songbird beta for free from Softpedia. The application is compatible with all phones that run Android 2.1-update1 or newer.

Given the fact that Songbird is not available from the Android Market yet, users will have to enable the installing applications from unknown sources option, which can be found under Settings / Applications / Unknown Sources.

The beta version will need to be manually uninstalled when the developer releases a final version through the Android Market. Caution is advised because this step will wipe all previously stored, related data.

However, before installing Songbird for Android, users should take note of the following known issues, which will be fixed when the final release is available:

- When launching [the] app via Widget, if [the] drawer was open previously, it gets closed; - If you have an HTC Incredible, the wrong song may play when you have music on both the phone storage and the SD card; - On the HTC Incredible, stuff may be sorted oddly in the Artist, Albums and Songs views when you have music on both the phone storage and SD card.